Chapter published in:
Studies in Turkish as a Heritage LanguageEdited by Fatih Bayram
[Studies in Bilingualism 60] 2020
► pp. 105–126
Chapter 6First language exposure predicts attrition
patterns in Turkish heritage speakers’ use of
grammatical evidentiality
This chapter reports on a
preliminary study examining the production of
grammatical evidentiality forms in narrative
speech samples elicited from heritage language
speakers (HLS) of Turkish. Turkish grammatically
marks direct and indirect sources of evidence one
has for their statement. We explored (1) how
Turkish HLS use evidentiality marking as compared
to monolingual Turkish speakers, and (2) which
factors predict their performances in producing
evidentiality. Our findings showed that the HLS
made a large number of contextually inappropriate
substitutions by using direct evidentials in
places where an indirect evidential would be used,
and that this pattern is largely predicted by the
amount of self-reported exposure to the first
(heritage) language in daily life.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Some features of evidentiality in Turkish
- 3.Relevant studies on Turkish heritage speakers
- 4.Method
- 4.1Participants
- 4.2Materials
- 4.3Procedure
- 5.Results
- 5.1General characteristics of utterances and finite verbs
- 5.2Inflected forms for evidentiality
- 5.3Determining the predictors of incorrect uses of evidentiality through machine learning
- 6.Discussion
- 7.Conclusions
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
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Published online: 18 November 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.60.06ars
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.60.06ars
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